LOUIS VUITTON HONORS FRANK GEHRY AT ART BASEL HONG KONG

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An Eight-Chapter Journey Tracing Gehry’s Legacy from Architecture to Collectible Design

At Art Basel Hong Kong 2026, Louis Vuitton stages a focused retrospective honoring its long-standing collaboration with Frank Gehry—a dialogue spanning more than two decades across architecture, objects, and craft. Presented as an eight-chapter chronological journey, the booth traces Gehry’s contributions to the House, from landmark architectural projects to highly collectible designs in handbags, fragrances, and horology.

Highlights include the Louis Vuitton x Frank Gehry handbag collection, the sculptural bottles for Les Extraits fragrances, the Tambour Moon Saphir Tourbillon Volant watch, alongside maquettes and Monogram studies that offer insight into the architect’s exploratory process.

Frank Gehry

The partnership between Gehry and Louis Vuitton began in 2001 with the conception of the Fondation Louis Vuitton, inaugurated in 2014 as a luminous composition of glass sails and “iceberg” galleries. This architectural language—defined by movement, transparency, and volume—would go on to inform a series of cross-disciplinary creations, from the “Twisted Box” bag to the Louis Vuitton Maison Seoul, as well as commemorative pieces such as the “A Tea Party for Louis” trunk and Murano glass stoppers for Les Extraits.

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A central focus of the presentation is the handbag collection first unveiled at Art Basel Miami Beach 2023. Translating key themes from Gehry’s oeuvre—architecture and form, material experimentation, and animal motifs—the series reimagines iconic silhouettes such as the Capucines and Twisted Box. Designs range from concrete-textured surfaces referencing his façades to fluid, fish-inspired compositions, underscoring the House’s technical virtuosity.

The exhibition also revisits Gehry’s ongoing engagement with the Monogram canvas, where deconstructed initials evolve into new graphic symbols, and culminates with the 2024 Tambour watch—an intricate object in sapphire that merges horological precision with sculptural expression.

On view from March 27 to 29 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Louis Vuitton’s role as Show Partner reinforces a shared ethos with Gehry: one rooted in curiosity, experimentation, and an enduring exchange between architecture, art, and savoir-faire.